Am I the only person who still hlods down A/X while freerunning? | Forums

[KazuoMitarashi]

A lot of people seem uninformed about how the sprinting mechanic changed from Ezio's games. Holding the X/A button with R1 in AC3/AC4 helps you traverse the landscape more smoothly. A Good example is small fences. If you're just holding R1 to sprint and you come to a fence, you'll hop onto it then leap off of it. If you're holding X/A while sprinting, you'll do a cool little vault over it. Some fences or walls (with holes under them) allow you to slide under it instead of climb or hop over it.

[LoyalACFan]

A lot of people seem uninformed about how the sprinting mechanic changed from Ezio's games. Holding the X/A button with R1 in AC3/AC4 helps you traverse the landscape more smoothly. A Good example is small fences. If you're just holding R1 to sprint and you come to a fence, you'll hop onto it then leap off of it. If you're holding X/A while sprinting, you'll do a cool little vault over it. Some fences or walls (with holes under them) allow you to slide under it instead of climb or hop over it.

Pretty sure you have to hold Circle to slide under stuff. Though I've done it by accident a few times in AC4 when I meant to go over something, so I'm not sure. It's definitely Circle in AC3.

[TorQue1988]

I thought it was weird at first (using SHIFT on PC instead of RClick+SPACE) but it makes perfect sense (because most PC games use SHIFT for sprinting) and i adapted very quickly to it because it feels much more natural. Don't know how it would feel for you guys playing on consoles though.

[SixKeys]

I thought it was weird at first (using SHIFT on PC instead of RClick+SPACE) but it makes perfect sense (because most PC games use SHIFT for sprinting) and i adapted very quickly to it because it feels much more natural. Don't know how it would feel for you guys playing on consoles though.

It's weird that they changed it to Shift for AC4. It was still right mouse button in AC3 like it's always been. I immediately remapped the AC4 controls to the old system. Hell, it already took me long enough to learn that E is no longer Eagle Vision. I still sometimes accidentally do something stupid when Edward goes to interact with something when I meant for him to use Eagle Vision.

[aL_____eX]

On PS4 I'm still trying to run or fire (Naval) with L1 + R1. It's so weird, when you are used to run with R1 for 6 years in this game and now it's just R2. Only good thing is, you can adjust the speed of running now, like you did with R1 + X or without X in former AC games.

[Adventurewomen.]

Since I'm an Xbox player the controls for old freerunning are RT + A. I still do press those buttons to freerunning it's an old habit from AC1, I really liked that way of freerunning, it's sad that these controls didn't stay it would have been still useful to use.

[lothario-da-be]

I stopped pressing x afther i started playing with Connor, strange people are still doing it in ac4

[poptartz20]

I stopped pressing x afther i started playing with Connor, strange people are still doing it in ac4

Haha.. I feel the same way! The only time I hit X button now is when I'm coming up to a fence or some other obstacle. No reason to have it down otherwise. Lol. I find it funny now when I try to go back to play the older games that I HAVE to hold down the X button.